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.Carbonio Acid Gas Generators.

Patented May 19, 1874.

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.. TENT OTTO ZwIETUseH, OE MILWAUKEE, WIseoNsIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARBON C=ACID=GAS GENERATORS.

Specification forming part ofLetters Patent No. 150,995, (lated May 19,1874; application filed January 5, 1874.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, OTTO ZWIETUson, of Milwaukee, in the county ofMilwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvementsin Carbonic-Acid-Gas Generators, of which the following is aspecilication:

My invention has for its object the generating of carbonic-acid-gas, andthe machinery for accomplishing this object consists of a generator madeof rubber, and is so arranged that it will stretch both ways, upward anddownward.

The gas is generated by muriatic acid and marble chips. As soon as themarble comes in contact with the acid, gas is liberated, and thepressure of the same will stretch the rubber, and the. marble will belifted out of the acid, and the gas will cease to be generated 5 but assoon as the gas is decreased and the pressure is reduced, the marblewill again come in contact with the acid, and gas will again begenerated, and thus the generator acts automatically.

Figure l is a sectional view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of asection of rubber of which I sometimes form the cover of my generator.Fig. 3 is also a section of rubber which I some times use as a cover forthe generator; and Fig. 4 is a sectional View of the generator as madewithout the lever and Weight, as shown in Fig. l.

A is the generating-chamber; B, the rubber cover of the generator; C,the generator made of rubber; D, marble-basket; E, supply-pipe connectedto the basket; F, cap secured to the top of the supply-pipe; E G, outletfor the gas from the generator and supply-pipe i'or the gas to a washer;H, inlet-pipe to the generat ing-chamber; I, outlet-pipe at the bottoniof the generator; K K, flanges of metal, which 'secure the cover B andgenerator G together 5 L, weight on the end of lever 0; M, fhlcrnin ot'lever O; N, guide for lever O, and which steadies it, O, lever, which,with the weight L, gives pressure to the gas.

This generator is operated as follows: Fill in through inlet H acidsnfiicient for the purpose, and iill into basket D, through supplypipeE,chips 'of marble, when the weight ot' the marble will sink the basketinto theacid, and gas will be generated, and as the gas :is generated,the space above the 'acid will be iilled, and the pressure of the gaswill stretch the generator C and cover B, so that the hasket will belifted out ot' the acid, the basket being secured to the cover B by aIIa-nge and bolts, so that it will be lifted as the cover is lifted, andgas will cease to be generated, and when a heavier pressure of'gas iswanted than the elasticity of the `generator and cover will produce,then a weight is put onto the lever O, and such pressure as may bedesired will be obtained.

rlhe Figs. 2 and 3 are merely to show different-formed covers that maybe used.

The basket D is made of rubber, and attached and hung to cover B.

l. Lever O and weight L, in combination with generator C, cover B, andpipe E, substantially as specified.

2. A carbonic-acid-gas generator constructed with cover B, generator C,and basket D, all of rubber, substantially as specified.

3. BasketvD, attached to and hung to cover B, substantially asspecified.

OTTO ZWIETUseH.

' vViitnesses:

J. B. SMITH, A H. E. DIcKINsoN.

